Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: It's been a really long day.

It's been a really long day.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

it's been an incredibly long day today, most of which i spent being extremely bitchy. i went to sleep too late, woke up too early, didn't have any coffee, got stuck in traffic, got lost because of shitty directions and then sat in a doctor's office waiting room with a crackhead for ninety minutes. and on top of all that, i still have not found a job. i should have chewed a bottle of midol or something and went back to sleep. but alas, it's now 12:40 in the morning, i still haven't had coffee, am seriously ready for bed, and just smiled for the first time today. i smiled when i saw this photo on molls' blog with the caption, "i can imagine that they would be the first couple to spoon in the white house. ever." i can't decide exactly why it made me smile, but it's probably true.

[via molls...she wrote]

3 comments:

Anonymous, 1:42 AM: it was probably the word 'spoon' ~ it made me smile, too.
Anonymous, 10:30 AM: I'm not really the type to laugh at other people's misery but the thought of you rolling your eyes trapped in a waiting room with a crack addict for an hour and a half after no coffee/crappy traffic/little sleep/bad directions did make me burst out laughing. What a picture you painted!

What kind of job are you looking for?
tony a.k.a. isweatbutter, 12:11 PM: i can't even describe the situation with the crackhead. in a total of 5 minutes i knew her ENTIRE life story and was able to reasonably assume that she was only at the old indian doctors' office to try and score some heavy prescription drugs... i'm SURE of it.

i'm a chef. a restaurant manager. but right now, i'll do anything. i even tried wal-mart, but was told that, wait for it, "i don't have the experience." LOL.

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...